Ransom Riggs Quotes

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I'm a workaday writer.

The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I would do it.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.'